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spatialpro
January 1st, 2015, 04:52
So I've woken up on the first day of 2015 (i.e. January 1st) and having been browsing ORBX products for several weeks now, deciding which ones to purchase, I'd make quite a long list worth a LOT of money and decided I'd deliberately splurge today... A kind of Happy New Year present to myself if you like! :biggrin-new: I could have bought these a few days ago, but deliberately waited until the 1st for my "present", safe in the knowledge the ORBX sale finishes on the 2nd...

...I think you know now how this is gonna end...

Of course what I hadn't done was read the small print, check the time or checked the time zones. In the reality the sale had actually already ended at the stroke of midnight January 2nd AEDT, not UTC! :dejection: This is entirely my own fault... I just needed to get it off my chest!

So, again, the morals of the story are:



Always read the small print
Check the time
Check the time zones
Don't "store up" purchases as "presents" to yourself!


To console myself (what a bad start to 2015!) I decided to go and splurge on a whole bunch of ORBX-compatible airfields for 20% off (minus another 5% if you buy 2 or more) at SIM720 instead... Hurrah!

http://flight.sim720.co.uk/

http://cdn1.sim720.co.uk/images/slides/oban_narrow_06a.jpg

Montie
January 1st, 2015, 04:58
Did the same thing myself, live and learn.

spatialpro
January 1st, 2015, 05:12
I wonder how many of us there are out there??!!

In case anyone else is interested in the SIM720 sale, here is the banner with details

Andy

Portia911
January 1st, 2015, 13:12
Sorry to hear you missed the ORBX sale, Andy. I picked up my first Sim720 add-on a couple of days ago, but haven't installed yet. Getting 5 East Frisian airfields in the one pack sounded like good value. Did you include this one in your splurge?